In this episode of SurgOnc Today®,  Judy Boughey, MD, from the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN, and Vice Chair of the SSO Breast Disease Site Work Group, discusses with her colleagues how they manage a missing clipped axillary lymph node. She is joined by Puneet Singh, MD, from MD Anderson Cancer Center and Firas Eladoumikdachi, MD, from Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey. Their discussion is focused on patients with node positive breast cancer who were treated with neoadjuvant chemotherapy.

In this episode of SurgOnc Today®, Laurence McCahill, MD, of Western Michigan University is joined by Julie Barone, DO, Medical Director of Vail Comprehensive Breast Care and John Abad, MD, of Northwestern Medicine Regional Medical Group.  They discuss their personal pathways that brought them into leadership roles within the community care practice setting, including their experiences with the accreditation of their programs, the establishment of their research programs and the use of their programs’ outcomes.  They also touch upon the characteristics that a physician seeking a career at a satellite program of an academic medical center should seek out and they address their recommendations for achieving balance between their administrative and surgery roles.

In this episode of SurgOnc Today®, Martin Goodman, MD, is joined by fellow members of the SSO Peritoneal Surface Malignancy Disease Site Workgroup, Ioannis Konstantinidis, MD, FACS, FSSO, and Trang Nguyen, MD.  They discuss various scenarios in which patients present with malignant bowel obstruction, reviewing the decision making process and treatment options to meet the individualized needs of each patient.  

In this episode of SurgOnc Today®, Tina Hieken, MD, Jeffrey Farma, MD, and Danielle Bello, MD, discuss the evolving role of surgery in the contemporary management of patients with Stage IV melanoma. The discussion includes the changing role of surgery for patients with metastatic melanoma in the current landscape of efficacious systemic immunotherapies and targeted therapies, and the role of surgical oncologists in  clinical trials testing new and expanded approaches such as adoptive T cell therapy for patients with advanced melanoma.

In this episode of SurgOnc Today®, Evan Glazer, MD, PhD, FACS, Chair of the SSO Gastrointestinal Disease Site Work Group, is joined by panelists to provide an International Perspective on GI Malignancies.  Their discussion focuses on the challenges and opportunities for professional collaboration and patient care as it relates to esophageal and gastric malignancies.

Panelists include: 

• Eduardo A. Guzmán Huerta, MD, Professor in Surgery, Tecnológico de Monterrey, Nuevo león, Mexico
• Nia Zalamea, MD, FACS, Assistant Professor General Surgery, Director UTHSC Global Surgery Institute, The University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN 
• Alejandro Rodriguez, MD – Assistant Professor, Tecnológico de Monterrey, Nuevo león, Mexico 

During this episode of SurgOnc Today®, Heather Wachtel, MD, University of Pennsylvania, Mahsa Javid, MD, MA, PhD, Medical University of South Carolina, Colleen Kiernan, MD, MPH, FACS, Vanderbilt University, and Cord Sturgeon, MD, Northwestern University, discuss strategies for building an early surgical practice with an endocrine focus. Many of these strategies will be relevant to complex general surgical oncology and breast careers. The discussion covers components of practice building including clinical resources, establishing a referral basis, mentoring and support, and promotion.

References/Resources

Tips and Tricks for Finding a Job (SurgOnc Today 2022)

Surgical Oncologists in the Community Cancer Care Setting: Opportunities for Graduating Fellows (SurgOnc Today 2021)

In part two of the series on the role of transplant for liver tumors, Alexander Parikh, MD, MPH, Chair of the SSO HPB Disease Site Work Group, is again joined by Ana Luiza Gleisner, MD, PhD, from the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus in Aurora, CO and Shimul A. Shah, MD, MHCM, from the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine in Cincinnati, OH. They review the role of liver transplantation for malignancies of and to the liver. The discussion also covers the role of liver transplantation in the treatment of colorectal liver metastases including the impact of liver-directed therapies on the role of liver transplant.

In this episode of SurgOnc Today®, Olga Kantor, MD, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, Emily Sturm, MD, Southern Illinois University School of Medicine, Springfield, IL, Ibrahim Nassour, MD, University of Florida Health, Gainesville, FL, and Kimberly Washington, MD, FACS, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, OR, discuss tips and tricks for fellows navigating the process of finding a job. They discuss how to prepare while in fellowship, how to find jobs, and how to approach interviews and negotiations. References

• Guetter CR, McGuire KP, Oropallo AR, et al. Surgical job negotiations: How current literature and expert opinion can inform your strategies. Am J Surgery. 2020 June 25;220(2020):1201-7.
• The Graduating Surgeon: A Primer for Surgical Trainees. Young Fellows Association, American College of Surgeons, downloaded 18 Jan 2022. https://www.facs.org/-/media/files/member-services/yfa/yfa_graduating_surgeon_primer.ashx

In this episode of SurgOnc Today®, David Bartlett, MD, Chair of the Allegheny Health Network Cancer Institute and SSO Past-President, is joined by Margo Shoup, MD, MBA, President of the Orlando Health Cancer Institute and Glenda Callender, MD, Medical Director of Endocrine Surgery at the Hartford HealthCare Cancer Institute. They discuss their experiences with mid-career transitions from academia to the community cancer care setting.